Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Paleontology
Mathematics
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100

This ionic crystal is commonly used to season food

What is Table Salt (Sodium Chloride)?

100

This hydrocarbon is commonly used as natural gas for grills

What is Propane?

100

What event wiped out the dinosaurs?

What is an asteroid impact?

100

What is 12 * 37?

What is 444?

100

What halogen is nicknamed "the element from hell"?

What is Fluorine?

200

A metal that poisons people, but was widely dispersed in the atmosphere for decades and was historically used in pipes

What is Lead?

200

The four simplest alkanes (hydrocarbons with only single bonds) are Methane, Ethane, Propane, and ______

What is Butane?

200

The extinction event at the border between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras that was the worst in history and wiped out 90% of all life

What is the Great Dying?

200

What letter of the alphabet denotes imaginary numbers?

What is i?

200

The Nazis used a drug called Pervitin to fuel their armies with energy. What is the active component of Pervitin?

What is Methamphetamine?

300

This element is named after a Norse god who had a day of the week named after him

What is Thorium?

300

Which functional group is in the active component of alcoholic drinks and hand sanitizer?

What is Alcohol/Hydroxyl group (-OH)?

300

What taxonomic class of animals survived the late Mesozoic extinction event and went on to rule the planet?

What is Mammalia?

300

How many numbers describe a 2D vector (magnitude and direction or component form)?

What is 2?

300
This fertilizer is also an explosive

What is Ammonium Nitrate (NH4NO3)?

400

Which chemical has the formula P4 and commonly ignites in air?

What is White Phosphorus?

400

This explosive molecule has three nitro groups joined to a toluene molecule

What is TNT (Trinitrotoluene)?

400

Which epoch do we live in right now?

What is Holocene/Anthropocene?

400

Who popularized the use of i for imaginary numbers, e for Euler's constant, and pi for the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter?

What is Euler?

400

Chloroform (CHCl3) can decompose into what dangerous war gas in the presence of Oxygen?

What is Phosgene (COCl2)?
500

This super acid has the structure HClO4

What is Perchloric Acid?

500

The right handed version of this molecule is an important sugar while the left handed version can't be used by the body

What is Glucose?

500

Which ancient mountain range makes up the Appalachian Mountains and Scottish Highlands today?

What is the Central Pangean Mountain Range?

500

If you plug a function into the equation (f(x+h) - f(x))/h and then set h = 0, what are you left with? I'm not looking for undefined.

What is the derivative of f(x)?

500

What mathematician was referred to in the quote "things in mathematics are often named after the second person who discovered them because the first was always _____"

What is Euler?